Phenotyping for Drought Tolerance in Different Wheat Genotypes Using Spectral and Fluorescence Sensors by Guilherme Filgueiras Soares, Maria Lucrecia Gerosa Ramos, Luca Felisberto Pereira, Beat Keller, Onno Muller, Cristiane Andrea de Lima, Patricia Carvalho da Silva, Juaci Vitória Malaquias, Jorge Henrique Chagas, Walter Quadros Ribeiro Junior

“…In addition to productivity, we evaluated plant height, hectoliter weight, the number of spikes per square meter, ear length, photosynthesis, and the indices calculated by the sensors. …”
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Shariah Compliant Macaulay’s Duration Model Testing: Evidence from Islamic banks in Indonesia by Syed Alamdar Ali Shah, Raditya Sukmana, Bayu Arie Fianto

“…Ultimately, it will improve profitability, risk efficiency and Shariah efficiency by improved Shariah compliant measures of risk management. …”
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Design of Intelligent Firefighting and Smart Escape Route Planning System Based on Improved Ant Colony Algorithm by Nan Li, Zhuoyong Shi, Jiahui Jin, Jiahao Feng, Anli Zhang, Meng Xie, Liang Min, Yunfang Zhao, Yuming Lei

“…Empirical results demonstrate the system’s capability to perform real-time fire surveillance coupled with efficient escape route planning. When benchmarked against the traditional ant colony algorithm, the refined version exhibits expedited convergence, augmented real-time performance, and effectuates an average reduction of 17.1% in the length of the escape trajectory. …”
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Elimination of nickel ions in a packed column using clamshell waste as an adsorbent by S. Baskar, K. R. Aswin Sidhaarth, L. Mangaleshwaran, Sivarama Krishna Lakkaboyana, Herri Trilaksana, Reddi Mohan Naidu Kalla, Jaewoong Lee, Leonard I. Atanase, Mohsin Kazi, Seepana Praveenkumar

“…The PCSA’s nickel adsorption efficiency was maximum (87.68%) with Q = 8 mL/min at a bed length (H) of 25 cm with 1.05 mg/g adsorption capacity. …”
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Temporal-spatial Parameters for Urban Rail Transit Train Coupling and Decoupling Operations Based on Virtual Coupling Technology by XIAO Liweining, BAI Yun

“…Building on this foundation and through simulation calculations, the temporal-spatial parameters under time-saving operation mode, such as train coupling and decoupling duration and zone length are obtained. …”
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Radar reflection of cloud and weather precipitation at the various waves by Mikhail Rubenovich Vatiashvili

“…Taking into account the wave-length, by means of Сλi the specific particle backscattering area of cloud and weather precipitation (later CWP) ηλ, сm-1 was calculated, and without taking into account the wave-length - radar reflection of CWP (Z, mm6 ∙ m-3) at different units. …”
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ANSYS-Based Modeling and Simulation of Electrostatic Oil-Line Sensor by Ruochen Liu, Ge Cai, Jianzhong Sun, Lanchun Zhang

“…The simulation results show that the sensitivity exhibits different trends when the point charge is inside and outside the probe. The length-to-diameter ratio is proportional to the sensor efficiency, the spatial sensitivity distribution law of multiple charges is consistent with that of a point charge, and the relative deviation rate between the mathematically calculated values and the simulated values is less than 3% under the same conditions. …”
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Experimental Investigation on Static Performance of Novel Precast Concrete Composite Slab–Composite Shear Wall Connections by Xiaozhen Shang, Ming Zheng, Yutao Guo, Liangdong Zhuang, Huqing Liang

“…Additionally, it was revealed that the anchorage length of lap-spliced reinforcement significantly affected the ultimate load-carrying capacity and ductility of SCS-CW connections, thus highlighting anchorage length as a critical design parameter for these connections. …”
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Study on the Variation Law of Static Transmission Error for Cylindrical Gear by Chang Lehao, Liu Geng, He Zhaoxia

“…Based on a modified thin slice method,the static transmission error of cylindrical gear pair with tooth surface error is calculated efficiently. The transmission error is separated into composite deformation and composite mesh error,and the change of transmission error for gears with and without errors is studied. …”
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PhyloFunc: phylogeny-informed functional distance as a new ecological metric for metaproteomic data analysis by Luman Wang, Caitlin M. A. Simopoulos, Joeselle M. Serrana, Zhibin Ning, Yutong Li, Boyan Sun, Jinhui Yuan, Daniel Figeys, Leyuan Li

“…We provide PhyloFunc as an open-source Python package (available at https://pypi.org/project/phylofunc/ ), enabling efficient calculation of functional beta-diversity distances between a pair of samples or the generation of a distance matrix for all samples within a dataset. …”
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Reliability Analysis of Three-dimensional Soil Slopes Considering Spatial Variability of Soil Parameters by Wan Yukuai, Zhou Yuqi, Shao Linlan, Wang Yuke, Zhang Fei

“…When the characteristic length scale in the x-direction (l_x) increases from 10 m to 40 m, P_f increases by approximately 0.03. …”
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Exploring the Effects of Motor Training with Neurofeedback on Brain Functional Network in Stroke Patients Based on Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy by WANG Yanglong, HUO Congcong, SHAO Guangjian, CHEN Tiandi, LI Zengyong

“…Graph theoretical analysis was applied to calculate network metrics, including clustering coefficient, characteristic path length, and global efficiency, for further comparison. …”
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A novel analytical approach to design horizontal well completion using ICDs to eliminate heel-toe effect by Ramin Eivazi

“…This novel method introduces three key parameters in designing horizontal well completion: length of ICD associated well segment, equalized production influx, and the minimum length of ICD associated well segment. …”
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Optimal feature‐algorithm combination research for EEG fatigue driving detection based on functional brain network by Yi Zhou, ChangQing Zeng, ZhenDong Mu

“…The results show that the feature combination of node degree, local efficiency, and characteristic path length achieves the best classification accuracy of 92.92% in the logistic regression algorithm.…”
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The Controlled Condensation Method for the Sampling of SO3 in the Flue Gas by Bin LI, Yang YANG

“…For serpentine coil with the inner diameter of 4 mm, 20 L/min is the optimal pumping flow rate, and the length of serpentine coil should be 240 mm. Under the optimal conditions, the SO3 capture efficiency can reach 97% or higher, which will meet the needs of SO3 field test. …”
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Analysis of risk factors for elective surgery complications in a cancer specialty hospital based on propensity score matching by Mingfei Xiang, Anxin Luo, Yixin Wang, Junshuang Lin, Zhonghua Xiong, Fei Hou, Yinping Zhou, Chunlin Wu

“…Conclusion Surgical complications significantly increase the length of hospital stay and hospitalization costs. …”
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Small Horizontal Wind Turbine Design and Aerodynamic Analysis Using Q-Blade Software by Othman K. Zidane, Yaseen H. Mahmood

“… Wind energy is one of the most common and natural resources that play a huge role in energy sector, and due to the increasing demand to improve the efficiency of wind turbines and the development of the energy field, improvements have been made to design a suitable wind turbine and obtain the most energy efficiency possible from wind. …”
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Algorithm for finding subcritical paths on network diagrams by M. A. Аnfyorov

“…Network diagrams are used as an information support element in planning and project management processes for structuring planned work and calculating project efficiency characteristics. In order to optimize and balance resources used in projects, it becomes necessary to locate in these models not only the critical path of the maximum weighted length, but also the subcritical paths closest to it having a shorter length in relation to it. …”
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Blowout Risk Assessment Method of Screw Conveyor in Earth Pressure Balance Shield Tunneling through Water-bearing Sand Layers by CAO Tiejun, CAO Yang, MENG Shiqiang, JIANG Peifeng, ZHU Ru, ZHU Jun, CAO Zhanlin

“…Among which, the segment of Level I risk measures approximately 408 m, Level II about 463 m, and the no-risk zone about 241 m, accounting for 36.69%, 41.64%, and 21.67% of the total length, respectively. Given the high blowout risk and long construction distance during the interval construction, differentiated anti-blowout measures should be adopted for different risk levels to ensure safe and efficient shield tunneling.…”
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Effect of gabapentin on solution surface properties and micellization behavior of betaine-based surfactant ionic liquids by Shima Ghasemzadeh, Mohammad Bagheri, Hemayat Shekaari, Behrang Golmohammadi

“…Ion association constants (K A ) and DFT-COSMO calculations support stronger hydrophobic interactions and molecular packing influenced by alkyl chain length and gabapentin.…”
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